Gaza Artist Burns Paintings Amid Fuel Crisis

Published on 7.29.25

  In Gaza, an artist named Taha Hussein Abu Ghali destroyed his paintings in a video shared on Instagram, saying they had become "bread" due to the lack of fuel and resources during the nearly two-year-long conflict. He expressed the pain of having to burn his art, which he considered music to his heart, as a family struggled with no access to basic necessities like food, fuel, and medical facilities.

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